A man is master at home;
A pair of goats | and a patched-up roof
Are better far than begging.
[37]. Better a house, | though a hut it be,
A man is master at home;
His heart is bleeding | who needs must beg
When food he fain would have.
[a]38]. Away from his arms | in the open field
A man should fare not a foot;
For never he knows | when the need for a spear